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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of HHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) has issued a proposed rule “RIN 0991-AB59 Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology.” The proposed rule is available in PDF at this link and more information is available from ONC itself at this link.

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At “Bungled Brachytherapy, Computer Interfaces and Other Mysteries At The Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital” at this link I reported on serious problems involving brachytherapy treatment of prostate cancer at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia.

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The VA and DoD have been working for a number of years on interfacing the VistA EHR system and the military’s EHR, AHLTA (why anyone would want to interface to AHLTA in its present state is of concern to me, but…)

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In many posts on this blog, Roy Poses has lamented the fact that there are no personal repercussions for healthcare executives embroiled in malfeasance and scandals.

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Large-scale implementation of comprehensive healthcare IT, especially if meaningful ROI on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent is to be attained, is more of a wicked problem than a tractable one, as I have written on this site and in a number of presentations (such as this one on HIT challenges and perils - PDF).

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The march of legal settlements and guilty pleas by health care organizations just keeps going.  The most recent participants were:

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